Have you ever thought that if you could get a list of books that ranged from easy to read to difficult to read you could find a good reading level then let your child work through the list to improve reading ability?

You can use the free tool at

http://www.lexile.com/DesktopDefault.aspx?view=fa&tabindex=3&tabid=68

to do just that. Just select sort by lexile to arrange books by reading difficulty. You can also use this tool to find out how difficult a book in your home library or current public library books are. Just enter the book title or author to bring up the lexile number. The next thing you need to know is how do lexile numbers relate to grade levels. Here is a chart that I made that can help out. Just copy/paste it from the page that you will be linked to and print it out for future reference.

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